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Degree Option: HBA
Program Overview
The Studio Art program at UTSC offers hands-on courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance art, video, new media, animation, and conceptual practices. Students can also take specialized courses in digital imaging, sound art, kinetics, or thematic courses that explore such things as the relationships between art and globalization, or art and politics, or time-based art practices.
UTSC Studio Art students develop a combination of technical, theoretical, conceptual and critical skills that enable them to express and communicate their ideas confidently in a variety of visual languages.
Complementary Programs: New Media Studies, Media Studies, Arts Management, Art History and Visual Culture, Minor in English Literature, Minor in Creative Writing, Minor in Literature and Film.
Check out future career opportunities and skills acquired from completing this program:
1. Competencies & Skills
- Communicate ideas using images, design, and a range of digital technologies
- Imagine and make objects, pictures, digital and video media, and events
- Use technologies (cameras, audio equipment, lighting, circuitry, imaging software) for artistic and creative work
- Analyze text, images, sound and data from a creative and unorthodox perspective
- Articulate and present abstract concepts
2. Careers for Graduates
- Professional Artist
- Media Producer
- Professional Photographer
- Animator and Illustrator
- Graphic Designer
- Elementary, secondary, post-secondary Educator
- Curator
- Art Critic and Arts Publisher
- Arts Manager
- Artistic Director for an arts organization
- Creative Entrepreneurs
- Social Media Designer
3. Further Education
- Fine Arts
- Interactive Media Design or Graphic Design
- Digital Media or Design
- Teacher Education
- Curatorial Studies
- Art History
- Art Conservation
- Architectural Studies
- Media Studies
- Advertising
- Photography
Program Pathway
Year 1 | |
CHOOSE YOUR COURSES WISELY |
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DEVELOP YOUR ACADEMIC & RESEARCH SKILLS |
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APPLY THEORY TO PRACTICE |
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BECOME AN ENGAGED CITIZEN (LOCALLY & GLOBALLY) |
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PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE CAREER |
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Year 2 | |
CHOOSE YOUR COURSES WISELY |
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DEVELOP YOUR ACADEMIC & RESEARCH SKILLS |
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APPLY THEORY TO PRACTICE |
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BECOME AN ENGAGED CITIZEN (LOCALLY & GLOBALLY) |
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PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE CAREER |
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Year 3 | |
CHOOSE YOUR COURSES WISELY |
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DEVELOP YOUR ACADEMIC & RESEARCH SKILLS |
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APPLY THEORY TO PRACTICE |
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BECOME AN ENGAGED CITIZEN (LOCALLY & GLOBALLY) |
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PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE CAREER |
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Year 4 or Final Year | |
CHOOSE YOUR COURSES WISELY |
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DEVELOP YOUR ACADEMIC & RESEARCH SKILLS |
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APPLY THEORY TO PRACTICE |
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BECOME AN ENGAGED CITIZEN (LOCALLY & GLOBALLY) |
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PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE CAREER |
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Contacts
- Departmental Contact: Manaal Hussain, manaal.hussain@utoronto.ca, 416-208-5115
- Studio Art Librarian: Paulina Rousseau, paulina.rousseau@utoronto.ca, 416-208-5190
- Academic Advising & Career Centre: Room AC213, 416-287-7561
- Department of Student Life: Room SL157, 416-208-4760
Did You Know: All Studio Art faculty are professional artists exhibiting their art world wide.